Alibaba's research arm, the Damo Academy, has promised to deliver a server-grade RISC-V processor later this year, showed off a RISC-V-powered laptop running the open source cut of Huawei's CentOS spinout, and talked up a growing community working on the permissively licensed CPU instruction set architecture. News of the forthcoming server processor – dubbed the C930 – emerged at last week's Xuantie RISC-V Ecological Conference held in Shenzhen. Numerous Chinese media reported that Damo reps ann...